Are There Anymore Cheap Airfares?
I read in the paper that Hawaiian Air just increased their airfare and American Airlines is now going to start charging for any checked in luggage. Yes… including the first bag.
I thought things got bad when we started to not have meals during the red-eye flights to the mainland. Things got worse when they brought back the food and made it an option to purchase charging about $10 for it.
Now, we’ve got to pay to check in any bags on the flight? The cause of the increase is of course, fuel prices.
Perhaps I should’ve bought stock in oil when it was trading at $25 a barrel because there’s a predication floating around that it could very well go to $200 a barrel. What that means for us is that the cost of gas at $200/barrel would translate to $7.00 per gallon of gas.
Sheeeesh!!! That’s like the price of lunch! But does that mean I won’t travel anymore… Probably not. I just have to be more creative and resourceful about finding the best deals on and offline. Here are a couple of online sites I found that may help me find cheap airfare in and to Hawaii.
(1) Cheapflights.com – compiles individual airline rates as well as places like Orbitz, Hotwire, Travelocity, Priceline, Expedia, CheapTickets and CheapOAir. That makes things really easy rather than flipping through all the websites that sometimes can take minutes to load.
(2) Yahoo Travel – has a FareChase program that searches all the travel sites for the most current deals. One thing I liked about using Yahoo Travel was the online planner and deals tab.
Well, I’ve got some research to do. I want to take my family to the Big Island this summer and perhaps even California later on in the year. If anyone knows of any other sites that can help make vacation planning a little easier, let me know!
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